Rare Bird Books: 181 books

When a mysterious blogger reveals renowned pro-war journalist Arthur Hunt's long-ago incestuous affair with his smart but impressionable younger sister, Emily, Arthur writes a memoir in defense of his life, coming to terms with his shattered sense of self, his skewed political ideals, and the crumbling...

Nobody is a highly stylized memoir that employs the choose-your-own-adventure structure to illustrate the complexity of navigating trauma for both author and reader. Nobody invites you to closely share a young girl’s brave journey of growing up in Australia in the eighties in a violent and abusive...

The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management, and Rachel, a bear biologist, is discovering some very startling animal behavior-grizzlies denning in June, swans at their wintering grounds in summer, what appear to be Irish Elk, an extinct species, with huge palmated antlers....

Meet Josh, a paragon for the modern postcollegiate. He has a job with no upward path, and a dysfunctional relationship with his ex. Through his work with teenagers, he begins to find definition through the haze, gradually discovering purpose and a measure of self-respect. After two shiftless friends...

A novel of U.S. politics, clean and dirty, and the ways in which the specter of the past informs our every move.Ben Shamas, a gifted lawyer whose daughter's death in a boating accident has led him toward self-destruction, is tapped by a friend and old Yale classmate to help with his Midwest campaign...

Detective Joan Lambert works within the fabric of the LA landscape, solving cases with a combined tapestry of plodding police work, bang-on perceptions of the human psyche and guts. For the last five years, media madness has created fresh hell for LAPD’s imminent Homicide investigator, Joan...

This, the first of the Barnacle Split Editions, features two stories, one by Jesse Michaels, one by Sam McPheeters.Jesse Michaels' "Make No Mistake" revolves around a middle-aged man in San Francisco whose chance encounter with a woman changes his life.Sam McPheeters' "Sophisticated Devices" takes on...

In one short but fateful day, former Navy Seal Dr. Rex Bent has gone from dedicated emergency room physician to the most hunted man on the planet. After stumbling onto the world's biggest terrorist plot, as told in Crisis: Blue, Dr. Bent is framed by extremists, with no small amount of help from the...

Tom Pistilini has just discovered he’s an unwitting investor in a macabre tourism company bringing wealthy European sightseers obsessed with America’s murder culture to explore mass shooting sites. It’s a business that will make him wealthy, although he might just despise it enough to ruin his...

A spiral, a magical realist labyrinth, a lyric essay, a mirror-maze, and a mandala, Mothsong celebrates art’s capacity to facilitate and map posttraumatic growth. It is a testimony of healing from child abuse that peers into the chrysalis. Through poetic prose, visual image, ekphrasis, and intuitive...

Paralyzed from the neck down, Gordon Zahler rose from his deathbed to a fast-talking, Hollywood entrepreneur/idea man who traveled the world, lived hard, married, fantasized about water-skiing and chased his dreams to create one of the largest independent postproduction shops in Hollywood. While this...

Appearances as many conventions—MarsCon 2018, Williamsburg, VA—January 12-14, 2018 (Re)Generation Who, Baltimore, MD—March 23-25, 2018 AwesomeCon, Washington, DC—March 30–April 1, 2018 Wizard World Comic Con, Philadelphia, PA—May 17-20, 2018 Balticon, Baltimore, MD—May 25-28, 2018 Baltimore...

The Boxti destroyed one planet and invaded another. They bled humanity to the breaking point. Then they disappeared. In the sudden reprieve, startling rumors chip away at the tenuous alliance between humanity and the alien refugees, the Nangolani. Kaileen Nuvarian, hotheaded bomber-pilot, awaits...

In distant future, humanity is recovering from a bloody civil war. Pilots CAMERON DAVIS and GEORGE LOCKLEAR, reservists with Sector Patrol, prepare for a long weekend off. That vacation is permanently cancelled when two alien armadas-the BOXTI and NANGOLANI-arrive near Earth. Though humanity wins the...